Leaf [1] is paper, bearing signature of calligrapher: "Hanns Jacob Lupin von Memmingen 1588." Caption title. Original texts on six vellum leaves, written in black and brown ink illuminated in gold, and embellished with large illuminated decorative initials with ornamental penwork; fourteen paper leaves were bound in following the vellum leaves, five of which were used during the 17th and 18th centuries to imitate pen ductus and various calligraphic styles in brown, red, and black ink. Last [9] paper leaves are blank. Ownership inscriptions of Heinrich Neubronner ab Eisenburg, dated 1670; Melchior Daniel Neubronner von Eisenburg zur Trunckelsperg, dated 1698; and Matthaeus Lupin, dated 1700.
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